Campaign to Pay Weezer $10 Million to Break Up

Whenever Weezer announces a new album, feelings are usually harshly divided. The band's past decade or so inspires in longtime fans everything from guarded enthusiasm to outright derision. And now a guy in Seattle hopes to mobilize an army of disaffected Weezer fans to convince the band to stop making music altogether. The Stranger reports that James Burns is attempting to raise $10 million to convince the band to break up. Thanks to Brian James for the tip.

Using the fundraising site the Point, Burns launched his campaign earlier today-- and, as I'm writing this, he still has $9,999,864 left to go. In the pitch he's written for the campaign, Burns claims that he's never been a Weezer fan: "I think that they are pretty much horrible, and always have been. Even in the early '90s." He writes that he's launching the campaign on behalf of all the Weezer fans out there, the ones who try to muster enthusiasm for new Weezer records: "This is an abusive relationship, and it needs to stop now."